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A Medical Doctor With a Passion for God, a Love for People, and an Enduring Faith

Our Mission in Kenya Continued well. He is humble, he is joyful, and he works hard to make a difference among a Kenyan rural town's community.  That is Dr. Nathan Matasi, a gynecologist serving in Kitale town, Western Kenya.  There are hardly any hospitals in this part of the world.  The one government operated hospital in Kitale town serves a population of over one million people from the town and the surrounding rural farm communities.  Sammy and Gary share a moment with Dr. Matasi next to a corn field in Kitale on Tuesday morning before heading out for the prayer service in Nairobi, some 400 miles away.  Here you will find patients sleeping on the floor in overcrowded hallways, pregnant mothers sharing beds, and daily lines forming at the out-patient unit.  There are hardly modern equipment available for the few qualified doctors and nurses to use for diagnostics or treatment.  Majority of the patients can hardly afford to pay for quality medical attention. Yet it is

Residents of Eluuya Village Receive the Testimony of Christ with Great Joy

We arrived in Kenya safely on Sunday night for the first leg of our mission.  “We live and we minister in the villages,” stated Pastor Christopher Mwale, who pastors one of the village churches in Eluuya. “But the villages do not live in us. Our mandate, extend of our ministry, and who we are as a people, is not determined or defined by the village. It is defined by the God of the universe,” he continued, emphasizing the heavenly call to all believers from all the world to go to all the world taking the Good News of Jesus Christ. Gary and Candie are welcomed at my parents'  Eluuya home  by my brothers Titus (Ctr) and Caleb (left). The opportunity to minister to the residents of the village of Eluuya, just as I did growing up among them until I was thirteen, marked a tremendous and fitting commencement to our ministry here in Africa that continues over the next ten weeks and will span five countries. As one who now lives out the Great Commission mandate among the nations of